Abstract

A high-quality-factor photonic crystalheterostructure laser was designed and characterized. Good agreement was obtained between the experimental lasing data and three-dimensional finite-difference time-domain numerical predictions.

Received 03 January 2006Accepted 25 July 2006Published online 05 September 2006

Acknowledgments:

This study is based on research supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under Contract No. F49620-02-1-0403 and by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. ECS-0094020. Computation for the work described in this letter was, in part, supported by the University of Southern California Center for High Performance Computing and Communications.